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Margaret Signorella

@msignorella.bsky.social
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social psych prof; studies gender; uses stats; bad at bio blurbs; she/her

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 18h
This is not "a controversial vaccine trial," it's biological warfare, conducted by European researchers on African infants. It's imperialism, racism, eugenics, and the hubris of incredibly stupid people. It's denying vaccines to newborns! In what fuckin universe is this a "vaccine trial"?
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Rachel Courtland @rachelcourtland.com · 08/10/2026
RIP to the world's first software engineer news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Margaret Signorella @msignorella.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Why, why, why is Penn State doing this? Subhead: "Some are questioning the decision..." This Inquirer article provides a good summary of why. www.inquirer.com/college-spor...
inquirer.com
Penn State announces new ‘Paterno Family Football Experience Room’
Some are questioning the decision to name an exhibit after the longtime coach who ultimately left the university in disgrace.
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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 06/08/2026
The title is a little pointed, but I am very serious here. Academics, medical researchers, and other organisations should not collect data on birth sex. It is rarely relevant, and it almost always leads to privacy violations for transgender people. Please share. I would like people to read this one.
blog.djnavarro.net
Separating sex and gender is statistical malpractice – Notes from a data witch
Statisticians and academics in Australia should ignore the terrible advice of most LGBTIQA+ organisations and read this post instead. The 2020 ABS standard is almost never the correct way to collect d...
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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
So…Republicans are attacking trans kids to “protect women” while blocking our nation’s first-ever Smithsonian dedicated to Women’s history?  Make it make sense. @balint.house.gov
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Margaret Signorella @msignorella.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The condition called PCOS is being renamed by the European Congress of Endocrinology as polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS). www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
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‘Unprecedented’ global effort gives new name to polycystic ovary syndrome – and new hope to millions of women
Decades-long campaign powered by patient perspectives results in switch from PCOS – a name that caused confusion and undue suffering – to PMOS
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
By popular (?) demand, I've updated (and cleaned up) my suffrage and citizenship timeline with recent events and some additional clarifications. Feedback welcome! I will make the file available on my website (christinawolbrecht.com) by COB.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
TPM SPECIAL REPORT: ICE at the polls, purged voter rolls, ballot seizure, and efforts to block certification: Joe Morelle and other House Dems have put together a team that’s planning to confront ‘150 threats’ that could cause midterm election interference. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-d...
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EXCLUSIVE: Inside The ‘Red Team’ House Dem Task Force That’s Running War Games And Taking On Trump’s Election Threats
The last time President Donald Trump lost an election, he fought back...
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 13/02/2026
Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott
Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why
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Dr. G @drlauraguertin.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
If you have an email address with a Big Ten institution, then please vote for Challenged Stitches: a quilt with banned book data. This advocacy quilt utilizes an analog data visualization for @lovedataweek.bsky.social from Penn State. #QuiltSky Vote/read full description at btaa.org/technology/l...
hanging quilt with the word Love Data Week and Vote for Challenged Stitches
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 18/12/2025
Here are some actions you can take to defend gender-affirming care in your hospital system.
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CMS EMAIL TEMPLATE TO SEND TO HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP
EMAIL TEMPLATE FOR RFA FAMILIES AND ALLIES TO SEND TO HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP TEAMS ABOUT CMS RULES (ADDRESSES FOR LEADERSHIP GROUPS ON PAGE 2) (Please personalize with whatever you have time for) Su...
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Margaret Signorella @msignorella.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Encountered this today: "12 historic dining spots to try in Pennsylvania." Only some of them can be found *in* PA (unless Apple Maps is totally wrong), but I think it is safe to say that the famous (or infamous) South of the Border is NOT in PA. modernfamilydriver.com/2025/08/04/1...
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
On this day, I ruined the workplace.
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community. reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...
reeserichardson.blog
A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise
Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”
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Margaret Signorella @msignorella.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Promoting local, county, and statewide candidates, including the crucial PA judge retention votes, at Westtown Twp, PA
At local fair, promoting local, county, and statewide candidates with signs and brochures.
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
The university president's letter is bananas, and anyone who sends such a letter should not be running an academic institution. A thread. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
nytimes.com
Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Note per @jamalgreene.bsky.social that the legal reasoning is dubious at best, but that won't stop it from chilling free speech
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Douglas M. Charles, PhD @dmcharles.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Unfortunately, VERY RECENTLY the highly qualified SAC in Salt Lake city was ousted. Why? No doubt because she was a woman of color. You know, "DEI." No doubt a function of the Trump purge. www.fox13now.com/news/local-n...
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Meet the brand new special agent in charge of the FBI in Salt Lake City
Meet Shohini Sinha, the brand new special agent in charge and only the second female to head up the FBI Salt Lake Field Office, which also covers Idaho and Montana.
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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 30/08/2025
Rossiter coined the term "Matilda effect" for when women's scientific work is attributed to men. It was a twist on the "Matthew effect," famously attributed to Robert Merton, but actually studied jointly by Merton and his wife Harriet Zuckerman, who was denied co-authorship
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Douglas M. Charles, PhD @dmcharles.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Echoes of the Red Scare round ups of 1919-1920.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
Email from the "PUBLIC RECORDS OFFICE" to Kate Starbird asking for all emails from Jan 1 2021 through July 30 2025 with any of the following keywords:
"diversity and inclusion"
"DEIA"
"DEI"
"Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging"
"DEIB"
"gender identity"
"racial preference"
"ESG"
"organizational equity"
"intersectionality"
"anti-racism"
"critical race theory"
"LGBTQ+"
"transgender"
"cisgender"
"gender ideology"
"white privilege"
"privilege walk"
"cultural humility"
"equity audit"
"restorative justice"
"racial equity"
"implicit bias"
"microaggressions"
"inclusive pedagogy"
"identity-based oppression"
"systems of oppression"
"queer"
"non-binary"
"sexuality"
“Trump”
“fascist”
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Linda J. Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
A *huge* problem. It also includes search committee positions, review requests, letters of recommendation, P&T reviews (so, so many of these post tenure)—it goes on and on. And the social penalties for women saying no are so dramatically higher than when men say no.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
“The gender-equality paradox entails that countries with more equality have larger gender differences in behavior. Positive associations between equality & gender differences disappear or reverse when accounting for cultural clusters of countries. The paradox appears to be a methodological artifact”
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Simpson’s gender-equality paradox | PNAS
Several cross-country examinations have found larger gender differences in Western countries. More recently, it has been argued, from an evolutiona...
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com
Welcome to Save The U.S. National Science Foundation
A Girl Looking at a Physics Model
TAKE ACTION
Save NSF is a coalition of concerned scientists and allies who are working to save funding for scientific grants through the U.S. National Science Foundation.

 

Our mission is to support and advocate for the continuation of vital research and innovation in various scientific fields. NSF funding is critical to this work.

 

 Join us in our endeavor to ensure a sustainable future for scientific exploration and discovery.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 16/03/2025
Kash Patel's appointment as #FBI director draws parallels to William J. Burns, a 1920s FBI head known for targeting his political enemies. An FBI historian examines the similarities and potential implications for the bureau's independence. buff.ly/YrdTArm @dmcharles.bsky.social, Penn State #polisky
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The parallels between Kash Patel and William J. Burns, a scandal-mongering 1920s FBI director — an FBI historian explains
Some observers compare FBI Director Kash Patel to J. Edgar Hoover. A better historical match is the politically motivated William J. Burns.
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The federally funded Vera Rubin Observatory has been hit by Trump's anti-DEI campaign. Astronomy remains a male dominated field. Vera Rubin tried to get more women in. "By Monday morning, a section of her online biography titled, “She advocated for women in science,” was gone."
Picture of pioneering astronomer Vera Rubin. 

Propublica Headline, 1/30/25

"Trump Administration
The Rewriting of a Pioneering Female Astronomer’s Legacy Shows How Far Trump’s DEI Purge Will Go"
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Just spitballing, but things that could happen today: *Court injunction protecting USAID *Dems demand hearings on Musk's role *Someone introduce articles of impeachment *Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers *Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
1/I understand legit debate re: #DEI & whether pendulum swung too far, too quickly. But what happened today at @NSAGov's @NatCryptoMuseum is unacceptable. Trump Admin new DEI policy disgraces cryptological historical trailblazers & icons in community. See two covered areas? https://
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Gen Michael Hayden @genmhayden.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.
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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Dr. Margaret Strickland Collin’s studied termites, and was the first Black woman to earn PhD in entomology. siarchives.si.edu/blog/margare... #BlackHistoryMonth #28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory
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Margaret Collins: Scholar, Civil Rights Activist, and Mentor
During this Women’s History Month, the Smithsonian Transcription Center has been highlighting projects from women around the Smithsonian. Among these women is Margaret Collins, a pioneering scientist ...
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Mx. Robbie Bobbie Berta Boeing @captainbobbie.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼
A diverse flight crew of a gay guy, a Black man, and a woman
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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Do you know Daisy Roulland-Dussoix? She is one of the discoverers of restriction enzymes, who’s findings paved the way for the development of recombinant DNA and cloning technologies. Accordingly, the finding was rewarded with a #NobelPrize. But the prize didn’t go to her. 🧵👇
A portrait of Daisy Roulland-Dussoix from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Roulland-Dussoix
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
What can be done: @smotus.bsky.social on publicity stunts, lawsuits, and Congressional delays smotus.substack.com/p/what-might... @kimlanelaw.bsky.social on civil society and state governments raising costs and delaying action podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Trump is openly violating the law on a vast and unprecedented scale and everyone is acting like it's normal. NPR had a long story about finding a rare shrew. NYT said he was disregarding "legal niceties." This is an attack on the Constitution as profound as the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Who Can Stop Elon’s ‘Team’ Wilding Its Way Throuhg the Federal Government? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/who-c...
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Who Can Stop Elon’s ‘Team’ Wilding Its Way Throuhg the Federal Government?
Over the course of the last two weeks I’ve tried to drive...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
An unelected, erratic, ketamine-addled billionaire with far right/white nationalist views has taken control of the personnel and payment systems of the United States government. Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole.
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costrike @costrike.bsky.social · 04/08/2024
No more Slate pitches, please and thanks
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Vance Nomination Reignites Age-Old Question of Whether Women Should Be Allowed to Vote
His biggest donor once said women’s suffrage was bad for America. Let’s check the evidence.
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Margaret Signorella @msignorella.bsky.social · 09/03/2024
I am looking forward to the Feminist Science Symposium: 'Older Women Who Work: Resilience Choice, and Change' at the Association for Women in Psychology conference. The symposium features a book edited by Ellen Cole and Lisa Hollis-Sawyer: www.apa.org/pubs/books/older-women-…
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Margaret Signorella @msignorella.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
Women ignored by Nobel committees: The very topic today in my Women's & Gender Studies class. Meitner was one of the examples I used. Today is also the day that Katalin Kariko shared a Nobel prize for work that was not respected in traditional academia. www.inquirer.com/health/coron...
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Penn mRNA scientists Karikó and Weissman win Nobel Prize
Research by Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman paved the way for two COVID-19 vaccines: the ones by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech. Their work has won the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
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